Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'The Defense of the Sampo,' by early-20th-century Finnish painter Joseph Alanen, was inspired by tales from the Kalevala. Heritage ...

(The Conversation) — At the outset of the Kalevala, Finland’s national epic, a singer bemoans his separation from a beloved friend who grew up beside him. Today, the friends rarely meet “näillä ...